My Neighbor Asked My 12-Year-Old Son to Mow Her Lawn, Then Refused to Pay – She Didn’t See My Payback Coming

When Mrs. Johnson refused to pay Ethan, a 12-year-old boy, for mowing her lawn, she thought she could get away with it. Ethan had spent two grueling days on her massive yard, only for her to tell him the real payment was the lesson of hard work.

Ethan’s mother was furious when she found out. Determined to teach Mrs. Johnson a lesson, she concocted a plan. She called a landscaping friend to trim Mrs. Johnson’s prized hedges into funny shapes and ordered several truckloads of mulch to block her driveway.

When Mrs. Johnson returned home to find her yard in disarray and the neighborhood watching, she confronted Ethan’s mother, who reminded her of the lesson she had supposedly been teaching. Forced to confront her actions, Mrs. Johnson handed Ethan a crumpled twenty-dollar bill, humiliated.

Ethan beamed, and his mother reminded him he had earned it. From then on, Mrs. Johnson never asked for help again, and the neighborhood buzzed with the tale of her accountability.